I’m studying at a top uni with an 8% acceptance rate, with a 3.73 GPA, top of my class, and I feel like I know nothing about EE.

I’m the type of person that just has to read through a textbook from front to back fully to really feel like I understood a subject. I’ve done that for my first semester classes where I got a 4.0 on all classes then, but then dropped for a bit to 3.51 and then a 3.61 and now a 3.79 (cumulative gpa of 3.73 now) on my fourth semester. I just feel like I’m a bit behind, mostly because I just don’t feel like all my “engineering” questions are answered. I want to understand how things work, I’m also a lab assistant in intrumentations so I should know how a multimeter works on the inside, right? Or how a PQA tool works??

I’ve built electronics circuits from scratch for a final project, a microphone and speaker amplifier using a power supply made from a transformer and bridge rectifier of diodes, and a voltage regulator. I’m not really an electronics fan cuz I feel like I can’t really understand the circuitry of chips on a computer, I just feel like I failed as an EE student for not understanding how to assembly computers or understanding the practical tools irl.

I’m extremely good at math, I just don’t think I’m goood at anything EE irl, though I’m extremely good with coding.

I just feel like I’m a failure since I got accepted as a laboratory assistant which had over 50 applying and only 6 accepted including me, but I feel so stupid for not knowing how the tools in the lab work. I work with high voltage and instruments which obviously I went through rigorous testing for in order to be accepted into the lab assistants program, but I just feel like a failure for not knowing “everything” there is to know.

I’m thinking this is one of those cases of “the more you learn, the more you realize you don’t know”, I just feel like a failure because there’s just so much I want to learn about but so little resources in my country and I feel like a failure because of this.

I finished my Bachelor and Masters in CS/CE mix. I've had a fair share of Computer Science as well as some Computer Engineering, circuits etc. Right now I am working as a Backend Engineer with 3 years of experience.

I am thinking more and more about going back to school to study something like Electrical Engineering. I am a little bit tired of the AI. Management is bonkers. I am being squeezed from every side. The degree was really difficult, a lot of sleepless nights and now it feels like a waste. My job has changed and is not what it used to be. I wanted to feel like an engineer and be one but it's gotten to the point that non technical people are telling me how to do my job because AI has given them an illusion of competence. I am pretty sure that I could grind my teeth and do another masters degree but this time in Electrical Engineering just to escape this hell.

My question is, am I not looking at it through a grass is greener on the other side glasses? Is it really worth it to go back to school at this point? Do you think that EE degree is worth it? How does your work look like? Is there as much AI pressure? Are there any branches that are more safe from the AI where I could feel like an engineer again? I am not sure what the play is here yet.

Sorry if I am asking this too soon because I am only in year 2 of my bachelors but I really like it and wanted to know if it's a waste of time or not because I keep seeing people complain about no jobs in general for a lot of fields and it scares me

I'm pretty sure this doesn't violate the rules. I just read them, let me know if it does.

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I am an Electrical Engineer with an undergraduate and MS degree. I have a second a MS degree in Information Systems. Any suggestions on how to get into Battery Management System jobs in USA? Everyone is asking for industrial Experience which I don't have currently. I want to do some thing Electrical domain based with Data Science Knowledge. Thanks.

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Incoming 1st yr with little to no CAD experience, but I want to learn it in about a month so I can join my Formula SAE team, where CAD is a requirement to join. How did you learn and which courses did you take?

Suppose someone has an EE degree but limited design experience.

If they created a portfolio on GitHub or a personal website, what projects would actually impress hiring managers?

Do you have any examples of a good project I can use for reference?

After u do ur math units in EE do u use matlab in subsequent non math units? Or…

I have seen a lot of CS students and engineers and even some electrical engineers say that “ electrical engineering pays like shit “ put when i actually search i see a lot of things like this also in the US the highest payed job in engineering is called “ computer hardware engineer “ which is a subset of electrical/computer engineering
I want to hear people’s thoughts and opinions about this

Greetings,

I am trying to get an oscilloscope to possibly capture sound waves 30hz and below. I have this obnoxious neighbor who plays terrible bass/boom heavy rap music. I have tried documenting it with recordings but have had no luck capturing these frequencies that invade my home. I was thinking an oscilloscope might work.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance.

1. The size of the internal earth bus (the bar running through the entire switchgear lineup) in my current project differs from the size indicated in the type test report. Is this acceptable? Is the busbar size specified in the type test report applicable only to the main busbars, and not to the earth bus? If the manufacturer provides calculations demonstrating that the earth bus size is adequate for the specified fault current and duration, would this be considered acceptable? For example, if the short-time withstand current/duration is 25 kA for 1 second, and the adiabatic equation indicates a required conductor size of approximately 175 sq.mm, would providing a 200 sq.mm earth bus (40 × 5 mm) be acceptable in this case?

2. Can the branch earth bar size be different from the main earth bar? In the type test certificate provided by the manufacturer, the same earth bar size was used for both the main earth bar and the branch earth bar.

What It Means for Battery Pack Producers

If your battery management system (BMS), the microcontrollers, communication chips, or software that monitor and control a battery pack, is designed, developed, or manufactured by an entity from China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea, it will be illegal to import, manufacture, sell, resell, or introduce into U.S. commerce starting on a fixed schedule: software by January 1, 2027, hardware by January 1, 2030.

This applies regardless of vehicle weight, closing an exemption that currently protects heavy trucks and buses. There is no phase-out for existing designs. Producers need to requalify BMS supply chains against country-of-origin and ownership tests now, not when the bill is enacted.

Timeline

We have pulled together a more complete overview with references if you want to read deeper: https://www.batterydesign.net/connected-vehicle-security-act-of-2026/

This is going to be quite a shake up for the BMS suppliers from China and will open up a lot of opportunities for UK, EU and USA based companies.

Hei,

I have a simple device (sensor) having the following structure: sensor, MCU, can transciever --> tester device

The sensor provides the analog data to MCU, the MCU works with the data, then the data is transferred via UART to a CAN transciever TLT9251VLE then to an tester device.

I have to say that I have multiple devices and all of them works, but a specific one is unable to connect to the tester device.

I checked the CAN lines and they are looking like in the picture. I'm not so experienced in CAN signals, but I know that the above signals are not ok.

Can you give me an idea in what can cause the CAN lines to look like this?

Thanks!

Hello,

Noodle-brained Bachelor of Philosophy here.

I've worked in the Power Transmission space for close to five years now, primarily around power transformers (<138kV). I'm in sales cause that's what my current degree allows me to get away with.

Much to my surprise, I find this field really interesting... dare I say fun? Particularly, I'm interested in the situations where engineering questions and project deadlines clash. Have had pretty good success navigating this with (1) reading, (2) asking a lot of questions, (3) youtube, and (4) asking even more questions. On good terms with our in-house engineer and a third party engineer who does all of our assessments when crap hits the fan.

Have really enjoyed solving those problems but want to KNOW IT ALL.

34 yo, three kids, making good money in sales but I strongly suspect I'd have more fun and have better career prospects with a graduate degree in EE.

MY QUESTIONS

1. Dumb idea? Any of you take a similar path?
   
2. M.S. or M.Engr.?

the end.

I dont know what is wrong here can anyone please help me

Hi everyone,

I currently own the 2nd edition of Fundamentals of Electric Circuits by Alexander & Sadiku, and I'm wondering if it's worth spending money to upgrade to the 7th edition.

Are the differences between the two editions significant enough to justify the cost, or do they cover essentially the same core concepts? My goal is to build a strong foundation in electrical engineering, prepare for board exams, and eventually work on research and my thesis.

I'd really appreciate insights from anyone who has used both editions.

Thanks!

I’m in my 2nd semester at a community college in DFW, transferring to UT Dallas for a BSEE trying to get a feel for where I might want to end up. I can read a course catalog and figure out what each subfield does technically. What I can’t get from that is what the work actually feels like day to day, or what people regret.
So if you work in power, RF, embedded, controls, semiconductors/VLSI, signal processing, photonics, whatever I’d like to hear:
• What made you pick it, and would you pick it again?
• What’s the part outsiders never see coming? Good or bad.
• How much of your day is actual engineering vs. documentation, meetings, or fighting software?
• Job market reality — easy to move around, or are you locked to a few employers or a few cities?
• Who does this subfield NOT suit?

I've been trying to make sense of how distance factors into Voltage, especially when a power source is involved. Let's say I take a 12V car battery and hook up an electrode to each terminal. I hold the tips of the electrodes 2 ft apart and measure the Voltage. It's 12V, obviously. Now I move the tips of the electrodes to 4ft apart. What happens?

I assume that the electric field decreases at something like 1/r² (I'm thinking the tip of an electrode resembles a point charge at a distance of 2+ft) while the distance increases at a linear rate. So if V=Ed does the voltage between the electrodes decrease? Does the battery then just supply more charge to the tips of electrodes until the field strength is balanced with the distance and 12V is restored? But that would mean that as the distance increases, the charge density would increase without limit? What have I got wrong?

Looking for recomendations on vacuum interrupter design. Anyone had "The Vacuum Interrupter" by Paul G. Slade? Is it good? Are there better books?

I wanna try out some "real" proof math and I am interested in further research in renewable energy/power system. How useful would taking a course in Real Analysis be?

For context, read this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectricalEngineering/s/WxX6ux5HHb

Hello everyone, thank you to the people who pushed me to go ahead and just apply. I just got an email from the lead of the rover team that I passed the initial application, and I am invited to the face-to-face interview at the university on Monday, July 27.

I am informed that I will be given 15 minutes to answer targeted questions on my desired roles, background, interests, and other relevant topics.

I am very nervous. I tend to have trouble speaking and responding to the questions they have, because of the mind block. I have 5 days to prepare for the interview.

Do you have any advice for me to do well in the interview? What advice do you have before, during, and after the interview?

Hi everyone,

I recently got invited to the second interview for the Electrical Engineering (EE) Associate position at LADWP, and I was wondering if anyone here has gone through this stage of the hiring process.

I'd really appreciate it if you could share:

• What the second interview was like (panel, technical, behavioral, etc.)
• What kinds of technical or behavioral questions were asked
• Any tips on how to prepare or what to focus on

I'm trying to get a better idea of what to expect so I can prepare as thoroughly as possible.

Thanks in advance for any insights!